9392

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9392
• Author: Brookshire, D. S., M. McKee and S. Stewart.
• Title: A Four Corners Regional Focus on the Economic Impact of Critical Habitat Designation for the Razorback Sucker, Humpback Chub, Colorado Squawfish, and Bonytail.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Albuquerque.
• Copyright Material: NO

occurs through employment of reservation residents in surrounding towns (and vice versa), and
through commercial transactions between the reservations and the surrounding towns.
Employment interaction is evident in the employment mobility data for the Navajo Nation shown
in Table 2-A-2.3 In the wholesale and retail trade sector, 4,017 workers leave the reservation to
work. In the health, education, and government services sector, 4,610 individuals come from off
of the reservation to work on the reservation. That is, the true economic region extends beyond
the reservation boundaries.
Poliooriented coherence. Constructing a model of the entire regional economy allows
comparison of alternative scenarios concerning which entities in the region are permitted to
develop water. Confining the economic analysis to the tribal lands alone would likely understate
the total economic impacts arising from the designation of critical habitat because doing so
would ignore the direct impacts occurring off tribal lands that will affect tribal economies
through economic feedbacks and interactions.
3The Navajo Nation was the only tribal entity that provided data for employment provided on the
reservation